On this date 71 years ago, in 1936, a motorcade carrying President Franklin D. Roosevelt, who was campaigning for re-election, arrived on Staten Island over the Bayonne Bridge and rode through North Shore streets en route to the Staten Island Ferry in St. George.

FDR, the former governor of New York, won the general election a week later, crushing his Republican opponent, Alf Landon.

The win is regarded as one of the biggest landslides in the history of presidential politics, as Roosevelt carried all but two states -- Landon won electoral votes in Maine and Vermont, and lost his home state of Kansas -- as FDR took over 60 percent of the popular vote and 523 electoral votes to the Kansas governor's eight.

Roosevelt is still the only man ever to serve more than two terms as president, having been elected to the position four times. In April of 1945, four months into the first year of his fourth term, Roosevelt died of what was called a massive cerebral hemorrhage.